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Faculty: Musicology

Ora Frishberg Saloman
Professor, Baruch College and Graduate Center
(PhD, Columbia)

Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Box B7-235
Baruch College
One Bernard Baruch Way
New York, NY 10010
(646) 312 4055
Ora.Saloman@baruch.cuny.edu

Ora Frishberg Saloman (PhD, Columbia University) is a historical musicologist whose research interests include music, and trans-atlantic reception history of works, by Beethoven, Berlioz, Gluck,and  Le Sueur; history of opera and of music criticism; nineteenth-century genre theories of symphony and opera; and European-American connections in musical aesthetics, social history, and concert life. She served as a member of the editorial advisory board of American Music. She was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers, and grants from Baruch College, the Research Foundation of CUNY, and a Fulbright Fellowship from the Institute for International Education. She was a Visiting Scholar in Residence at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.


REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS:

Books

Listening Well: On Beethoven, Berlioz, and Other Music Criticism in Paris, Boston, and New York, 1764-1890 (New York: Peter Lang, 2009), 253 pp.

Beethoven's Symphonies and J. S. Dwight: The Birth of American Music Criticism (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995), 241 pp.

Essays in Books

“The Leopold Damrosch Orchestra, 1877-1878: Background, Instrumentation, Programming, and Critical Reception,” in American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century, ed. John Spitzer (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, forthcoming), 38 pp. ms.

“The Reception of Beethoven’s String Quartets in New York, 1851-90: An Overview,” in Music, American Made: Essays in Honor of John Graziano, ed. John Koegel (Sterling Heights, Michigan: Harmonie Park Press, in press [2010]), 17 pp.

“Music,” in Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism, ed. Joel Myerson and Sandra Harbart Petrulionis (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 750-60.

"Presenting Berlioz's Music in New York, 1846-1890: Carl Bergmann, Theodore Thomas, Leopold Damrosch,"  in European Music and Musicians in New York City, 1840-1900 (Eastman Studies in Music), ed. John Graziano (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2006), pp. 29-49.

"Chrétien Urhan and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Paris, 1838," in Mainzer Studien zur Musikwissenschaft: Festschrift Walter Wiora zum 90. Geburtstag, ed. Christoph-Hellmut Mahling and Ruth Seiberts (Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1997), pp. 376-97.

"French Revolutionary perspectives on Chabanon's De la musique of 1785," in Music and the French Revolution, ed. Malcolm Boyd (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 211-20.

"Dwight and Perkins on Wagner: A Controversy Within the Cultivated Tradition in America, 1852-1854," in Music and Civilization: Essays in Honor of Paul Henry Lang, ed. Edmond Strainchamps and Maria Rika Maniates in collab. with Christopher Hatch (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1984), pp. 78-92.

Articles in Professional Journals

“On Genius, Taste, and Melody in Rousseau’s Dictionnaire; Responses by Chastellux, Framery, and Momigny,” in Musicorum (Tours: Presses Universitaires de Tours, forthcoming 2011), 38 pp.

“Lacépède, Critical Contemporary of Chabanon: Divergent Perspectives in the Music Treatises of 1785,” Musicorum 2007-2008 (2008): 253-77

“‘The Harmony of Opposites:’ Characterizing Cellini’s Apprentice,” Journal of Musicological Research 24 no. 1 (2005): 27-47.

"Literary and Musical Aspects of the Hero's Romance in Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini," The Opera Quarterly,19  no. 3 (Summer 2003): 401-16.

"Origins, Performances, and Reception History of Beethoven's Late Quartets," based partly on Ivan Mahaim, Beethoven: Naissance et Renaissance des Derniers Quatuors (Paris: Desclée De Brouwer, 1964) in The Musical Quarterly 80 (Fall 1996): 525-40

"Continental and English Foundations of J. S. Dwight's Early American Criticism of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony," Journal of the Royal Musical Association 119 (Autumn 1994): 251-67.

"Fink, Hach, and Dwight's Beethoven in 1843-44," The Musical Quarterly 76 (1992): 488-501.

"Margaret Fuller on Beethoven in America, 1839-1846," The Journal of Musicology 10 (Winter 1992): 89-105.

"American Writers on Beethoven, 1838-1849: Dwight, Fuller, Cranch, Story," American Music 8 (Spring 1990): 12-28.

"Chabanon and Chastellux on Music and Language, 1764-1773," International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 20 (1989): 109-20.

"Margaret Fuller on Musical Life in Boston and New York, 1841-1846," American Music 6 (Winter 1988): 428-41.

"Gluck and the French Gluckists," Music and Man: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Studies on Music 2 (May 1978): 273-83.

"Victor Pelissier, Composer in Federal New York and Philadelphia," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography CII (January 1978): pp. 93-102.

"La Cépède's La poétique de la musique and Le Sueur," Acta Musicologica 47 (January-June 1975): 144-54.

"The Orchestra in Le Sueur's Musical Aesthetics," The Musical Quarterly 60 (October 1974): 616-25.

Short Articles in Reference Works and Other Publications

“Chabanon, Michel-Paul-Guy de,” Grove Music Online, forthcoming, 3 pp.

“Fuller, Margaret,” 1 p., and “Dwight, John S.,” 2 pp., forthcoming, in The Grove Dictionary of American Music, rev. ed.

“Dwight, John Sullivan,” The Encyclopedia of New England, ed. Burt Feintuch and David Watters (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005), 1170-71.

"Dwight, John Sullivan," Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2nd rev. ed. Ludwig Finscher (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2001), Personenteil, vol. 5, pp. 1785-88.

"John Sullivan Dwight," Dictionary of Literary Biography: The American Renaissance in New England, Third Series, ed. Wesley T. Mott (Detroit: A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, in cooperation with The Gale Group, 2001), vol. 235, pp. 96-103.

"Michel-Paul-Guy de Chabanon," The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Second Edition (printed and electronic), ed. Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2001), vol. 5, pp. 402-03.

"John Sullivan Dwight," The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Second Edition (printed and electronic), ed. Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2001), vol. 7, p. 814.

"William Foster Apthorp," revision of Richard Aldrich's article, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second Edition (printed and electronic), ed. Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2001 ), vol. 1, p. 791.

"Criticism: 18th and 19th Centuries," Reader's Guide to Music: History, Theory, Criticism, ed. Murray Steib (Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999), pp. 181-83.

"Apthorp, William Foster," American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press: 1999), vol. 1, pp. 567-68.

"Coerne, Louis Adolphe," American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press: 1999), vol. 5, pp. 138-39.

"Iphigénie en Tauride [Iphigenia in Tauris]," International Dictionary of Opera, ed. C. Steven LaRue (Detroit, London, and Washington D. C.: St. James Press, 1993), vol. 1, pp. 637-39.

"Chabanon, Michel-Paul-Guy de," with Philip E. J. Robinson, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan, 1992), vol. 1, pp. 811-12

"From Shakespeare to Gounod," The Dallas Opera Magazine 4 (November 1981): 47.

"A New Guise for Cinderella" [Rossini's La Cenerentola], The Dallas Civic Opera Magazine 2 (November 1979): 37-39.

Book Reviews

Peter Bloom, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz, Cambridge Companions to Music (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) in Notes 58 (September 2001): 84-85.

Vera Brodsky Lawrence, Strong on Music. The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong: Repercussions 1857-1862, iii (University of Chicago Press, 1999) in Music & Letters 82 (May 2001): 321-23.

David Cairns, Berlioz. Volume 2: Servitude and Greatness 1832-1869 (University of California Press, 2000) in Notes 57 (March 2001): 638-40.

Wayne M. Senner, comp. & trans., The Critical Reception of Beethoven's Compositions by His German Contemporaries, vol. 1, North American Beethoven Studies, 3 (University of Nebraska Press, 1999) in Notes 57 (December 2000): 389-91.

Joseph Horowitz, Wagner Nights: An American History (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1994) in American Music 13 (Winter 1995): 497-99.

Michael Broyles, "Music of the Highest Class": Elitism and Populism in Antebellum Boston (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992) in American Music 12 (Summer 1994): 194-97.